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Skeletal formula of the antibiotic linezolid, highlighting the oxazolidinone pharmacophore (in blue) and desirable structural characteristics (in orange). Created using ACD/ChemSketch 10.0 and Inkscape. Date: 24 June 2009: Source: Own work based on: Brickner SJ (1996).
Glycopeptide antibiotics are a class of drugs of microbial origin that are composed of glycosylated cyclic or polycyclic nonribosomal peptides.Significant glycopeptide antibiotics include the anti-infective antibiotics vancomycin, teicoplanin, telavancin, ramoplanin, avoparcin and decaplanin, corbomycin, complestatin and the antitumor antibiotic bleomycin.
Linezolid is a member of the oxazolidinone class of medications. [10] Linezolid was discovered in the mid-1990s, and was approved for commercial use in 2000. [16] [17] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. [18] The World Health Organization classifies linezolid as critically important for human medicine. [19]
Rhyolite (/ ˈ r aɪ. ə l aɪ t / RY-ə-lyte) [1] [2] [3] [4] is the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks.It is generally glassy or fine-grained in texture, but may be ...